Ran into this, tried to adjust by using a smart playlist, didn't succeed, thought should be changed by default. Why would anybody want to have watched items displayed so prominently? It's not very useful. Showing unwatched items which where just recently added would be a great feature though.

The stuff you see on the top is not supplied from xbmc core, but from a widget (a special kind of addon that the skin uses)...

I feel it might be a good addon idea to make a "Generic" xbmc widget that just displays the first items from a smart playlist, that the user can set.... that way users could display pretty much anything on the home screen (not sure if possible though)

I also ran into this issue, and after about an hour came up with a solution. Now, after movies or episodes are watched, they no longer show up in the home screen thumbnail list and are replaced with the next ones in line.

The solution involves changing what is displayed in the "IncludesHomeRecentlyAdded.xml" file. You need to replace the "LatestMovie" references with the corresponding "RecentMovie" ones, which are Skin Widgets. Here are the steps I took:

(2) Then in xbmc go to the Skin Widgets "Configure->Recent Items" tab, and make sure all three items are checked (the first two should be checked by default, and the third item, "Update each time you enter the home screen", will refresh the list when you return to the home screen after watching a file).

(3) Make a backup of your "IncludesHomeRecentlyAdded.xml" file

(4) Open the original "IncludesHomeRecentlyAdded.xml" file (that xbmc will load), and replace the following lines. (I only did movies and episodes):

Here is what you change for Movies. This is for the first item -- you need to change all 10 from "LatestMovie.1" to "LatestMovie.10":

I'd love to hear a developer give his stance on this. Imo this would be most useful to every XBMC user. Who wants already played shows at such a prominent place? You add new movies (most likely not watched) you watch them -> they disappear. Sounds like a sane workflow to me.

(2013-08-15 23:32)Syncopation Wrote: I'd love to hear a developer give his stance on this. Imo this would be most useful to every XBMC user. Who want already played shows at such a prominent place? You add new movies (most likely not watched) you watch them -> they disappear. Sounds like a sane workflow to me.

Opinions?

I agree. I think the solution would be to make the widget or whatever that Confluence uses to follow the same logic as the recently added node, and then maybe a discussion about which should be default, but both excluding/including watched would then be configurable.

We need new InfoLabel to show only "unwatched" recently added movies (see [1]). Something like "LatestMovie.[1-10].xxx" but only unwatched. Maybe: "LatestUnWatchedMovie.[1-10].xxx"
See [2] for the using of this InfoLabel.

For a single user setup this works great but if there are several user viewing stuff independently (and yes using the same account which is quite common) then having this as a default option would not be as good. it should at least be a setting to toggle this ON (it's OFF as default).

Also it would change the purpose of "Recently added" to "New and unwatched".